The farmers who don't have anything to eat,no water to drink, no roof above their heads, bareky anything to wear and NO ELECTRICITY for days have read your post on rediff and would like to thank you for understanding their predicament and offering this brilliant solution.All they have is their patch of land and now the govt wants to give it to Tata's. And if you have ever worked with any govt. official , you would know how much compensation they would receive for it and GOD KNOWS WHEN IT WILL COME and ultimately after passing thru 20 sarkari officers whose palms have to be greased - HOW MUCH OF THAT MEASELY AMOUNT WILL REACH THEM.
No one is against industrialisation - if the land has to be developed by Tat's - taken barren land elsewhere and develop it.....why homestead land ? And secondly, if a single farmer doesn't want to sell his land, so be it. NO govt. should have the right to displace them against their will.
Think about it - why are the poor and deprived always displaced in the name of national progress. If you remember in Bombay - a very crowded area needed to have a flyover - would have been a welcome thing - ask any bombaikar. But it was stopped becoz Lata mangeshkar and other rich guys of the area protested their privacy would go.
Here, the question is of the poor farmers livelihood, not even of privacy. So please get a grip on the situation before giving the above comments.
